English Mania: Cloze Test

Published on Friday, December 04, 2015

By Soumen Maity

Dear Readers,

In
the third day of the Mania Session, today we are presenting English Mania which
is based on Cloze Test. Try to solve it.

Cloze Test

Directions (Q.1-10): In
the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These
numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words/phrases are
suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate
word in each case.

Making extensive
preparations for rare, extreme situations is neither (_1_)nor economical. Both the
Tamil Nadu administration and the residents of Chennai and its neighboring
districts were not

ready for the (_2_) spells of rain after the North-East monsoon set in,
flooding homes and offices, roads and malls. Ordinarily, the worry for
Chennai is a weak monsoon with deficit rainfall that leaves little water for
drinking purposes and irrigation. But, (_3_) the last 30 days,
the government and the people were (_4_) with the
ill-effects of an unusually active monsoon that seemed intent on
overcompensating for the deficit years with record rainfall. Even as
the city returned to some sort of normalcy after one torrential downpour, it
had to contend with another spell (_5_) rain.
Displacement, traffic jams, power cuts, rising prices, and scarcity of
food, the (_6_) just would not end for the people of
Chennai. The situation was especially bad for those in the (_7_) new residential areas in the suburbs where, in recent
years, real estate growth was given (_8_)over planned
development. Also, more than the amount of rainfall, Chennai was hit badly
by the overflow of water from reservoirs and breaches in lakes and tanks, and
the flooding of water channels that were already (_9_) with silt and refuse. With an unprecedented discharge of
water, Chennai’s rivers have shown no respect for the bridges and the
roads, effectively cutting (_10_) people and places
on one bank with the people and places on the other bank. With bus and suburban
railway services becoming inoperable, Chennai had to rely heavily on
the new Metro line and the Mass Rapid Transit System.